Sausage stuffing and linking machine.



No. 661,073. Patanted. Nov. 6, I900.

W. PAULITSCHKE &. F. BARILITSCH.

SAUSAGE STUFFING AND LINKING MACHINE.

(Application filed Apr. 20. 189B.)

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W. PAULlTSCHKE-& F. BARILITSCH'. SAUSAGE STUFFING AND LINKING MACHINE;

(Application filed Apr. 20. 18919.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT I OF ICE.

WILHELM PAULITSCHKE AND FRANZ BARILITSOH, OF MGDLING, AUSTRIA- HUNGARY.

SAUSAGE STUFFING AND LINKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,073, dated November 6, 1900. Application filed April 20,1899. Serial No. 713,751. (No model.)

61555 whom it y con/067%: The machine, as illustrated, has a prefer- Be it known that we, WILHELM PAULIT- ably horizontally disposed tube or cylinder a, SCHKE, railway official, and FRANZ BARI- which communicates with the feed-hopper d, LITsOH,manufactnrer, citizens of the Empire intended to receive and supply the sausage 55 5 of AustriaHungary, residingat Modling, near material through aperture c,the material pass- Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary, ing continually under the pressure of a suithave invented certain new and useful Imably-arranged weight through the said aperprovements in Machines for Stuffing, Dividturecinto tube a. A piston b, displaceable in ing, and Tying Sausages; and we do declare tube a, thestroke of which can be regulatedin 6o 10 the following to be a full, clear, and exact deorder to determine the length of the separate scription of theinvention, such as will enable sausages, is provided forthe purpose of movothers skilled in the art to which it appertains ing forward at each stroke the material 0011- to make and use the same. tained in tube a toward the other end of said This invention relates toanew or improved tube and into a skin or gut which is prefer- 65 5 machine, the object of which is to eifect meably pushed over a slightly-conical tube 6, atchanically all the manipulations requiredin tached at f to the extremity of tube a by the manufacture of all kinds of sausages in means of a screw-jointorin other convenient order to save time and expense in the form manner. In front of the mouth or nozzle of of wages, &c.; and, furthermore, to produce the conical tube e there are placed two forks 7o sausages of exactly uniform predetermined or clamps g g, movable toward and from each weight-an aim which, with manual labor, other, which as soon as the stuffed skin has could hitherto, but inadequately, be attained, been pushed forward a given distance are anbecause with handwork only the judgment tomatically approached to each other, so as of the eye could be relied upon, so that misto throttle the stuffed skin, dividing itiuto 75 takes as to length and weight of the sepagiven lengths and firmly holding it while the rate sausages were unavoidable. The new or tying process is being carried out. improved machine automatically effects the The tying ofeach separate length of sausage stuffing of the material into the skin or gut, is effected by means of suitable materialthe dividing of the stufied skin into equal such as twine, thread, or wiresaid material 80 lengths of uniform weight, and finally the being wound around the throttled part of the throttling and tying of the stuffed skins at the stu fed skin. For this purpose the tying mapoints of division. The twine or other material is preferably wound on bobbins or reels terial used for tying is continued from one h, which are suitablysecured to an intermitpoint of division to the next following withtently-revoluble ring 2'. The said ring 1 is 85 out being cut, so that all the separate lengths made to concentrically surround the stufied of sausage remain connected with each other skin. The twine or other tying material is and undoing of the ties and tearing of the not out after the tie has been made, but is string of sausages during boiling or smoking led over-the separate sausages from one tie is obviated as far as possible if ordinary care to the next following, so that undoing of the 90 is used in their manipulation. i ties and tearing of the string of sausages can- The drawings hereto attachedillustrate one not easily occur.

form of construction of a machine for manu- The operation of the stuffing-piston}; of facturing sausages designed in accordance forks g g and of tying device 7 can be efwith the present invention. fected in various manners. In the construc-- 5 Figure 1 isaside elevation of the machine; tion illustrated in the accompanying draw- Fig. 2, a vertical section; Fig. 3, a top view ings, which 7 we consider the simplest and with partial horizontal section, and Fig. 4 a most eifective, the motive power proceeds rear view seen in the direction of the arrow from a common fiy wheel shaft is, which shown to the right of Fig. 1. Figs. 5, 6, and '7 transmits its motion to piston b by means of, I00

illustrate the mechanism for dividing the crank disk or armZ and connecting-rod m, stuifed skin into lengths and tying the same. while the fly-wheelndirectly effects the working of forks g g and of bobbin-holding ring i. For the purpose of admitting of changing the length of stroke of piston 1), according to the size and weight of the sausages to be produced, the connecting-rod m is secured to the crank disk or arm l by means of an adjustable pivotpin 0, while the other extremity of said connecting-rod is clamped to a stud provided at the side of the stuffing-piston b.

The mechanism for operating the throttlingforks g g is most eiiicaciously constructed in the manner illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. Bars or rods pp, carrying the said throttlingforks g g-i. c., the levers z z, supporting the latter-are placed at both sides of the folly or rim of fly-Wheel n and are continuously held pressed against said sides by the action of spring q, Figs. 3 and 6. One half of the periphery r' of the rim of wheel n is made wider than the other half, the transitions from wide to narrow being made wedge-shaped, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so that upon the wider portion of the wheel-rim entering between bars 19 p the latter are pushed farther apart. The throttling-forks g g are thereby approached to each other, and the stuffed skin, changing from the position shown in Fig. 5 to that illustrated in Fig. 7, thus gripping and compressing the stuffed skin and dividing it into equal lengths, Fig. 7. This operation takes place simultaneously with that half of a revolution of the fly-wheel n during which the piston 7) makes its return stroket'. 8., resumes its rearmost position previous to the next forward stroke. At the same time the tying device h t' is put into operation. For this purpose the circumference of ring 2' is provided with cogs or teeth or with a suitable friction-surface, into or with which engages a transmission-gearing t, rotated by fly-wheel n. The wider portion of the circumference of the latter, which also actuates forks g g in the manner described, is furnished on its outward surface with cogs or a suitable frictionsurface, into or with which the said transmission-gearing t engages during the respective half of a revolution of wheel 72., while piston 12 is making its return stroke. The bobbin-holding ring 7) is therefore rotated by gearing 15, whereby the twine or other tying material is wound off bobbin h and around the throttled or com pressed part of the stuffed skin, the requisite predetermined length of sausage being thereby divided from the remainder.

In order to efficiently prevent the sausagestuffing material from being pushed back into hopper d by the forward stroke of piston b, (an occurrence which may partially be obviated by placing a suitable weight upon the material in hopper 61,) a contrivance has been devised for closing the communicating aperture a between tube a and hopper cl during the forward stroke of stuffing-piston b, by which the possibility of the stuffing material returning into hopper (Z is entirely obviated. The said contrivance essentially consists of a thin-walled tube or cylinder 3, suitably inserted between the stuffing-piston b and the inner surface of tube at. This tube or cylinder 3, preferably sharpened at its forward extremity, is movably connected with crank disk or arm Z by rod 11.. It may, if required, be replaced by a flat or otherwise suitablyshaped slide-plate. The crank-pin o is connected by arm n; with pin 0 of piston-pushing rod m in such manner that cylinder 3 is caused to precede piston 19, and that upon adjustment of pivot-pin 0 for the purpose of changing the length of the stroke of the piston the other pin 0 is displaced simultaneously, so that the preceding of cylinder 3 relative to piston 19 is assured in all cases. The cylinder 8 is provided with a longitudinal slot at, Fig. 3, adapted to receive arm 3/ of piston b, the movement of piston I) being thereby rendered independent of that of cylinder s. It may appear advisable to arrange crank-pin Q) for holding connecting-rod to of cylinder 3 at greater distance from the center of shaft than pivot-pin 0 of connectingrod m of stuffing-piston Z) in order to admit of giving a longer stroke to cylinder .9 independent of its normal preceding the movement of piston 7).

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, We declare that what we claim is- 1. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a hopper, of a cylinder arranged beneath the discharge-opening of the hopper, a piston arranged and adapted to be reciprocated in the cylinder, a thin tube arranged intermediate the piston and cylinder and adapted to be reciprocated independently of the piston in the manner described, and means for reciprocating the tube and piston.

2. Ina machine of the character described, the combination with a hopper, of a cylinder arranged beneath the discharge-opening of the hopper, a piston arranged and adapted to be reciprocated in the cylinder, a thin tube arranged intermediate the piston and cylinder and adapted to be reciprocated independently of the piston in the manner described, means for reciprocating the tube and piston and means for varying the stroke of the tube and piston.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a stuffing mechanism, of forks g g arranged to engage and throttle the stuffed skin at predetermined points means for reciprocating the forks from opposite directions, and means for winding twine around the stuffed skin at the points where the same is throttled by the forks and while held by the latter.

4. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a hopper, of a cylinder arranged beneath the discharge-opening of the hopper, a piston arranged and adapted to be reciprocated in the cylinder, a tube 8 arranged to slide between the piston and the cylinder, a driving-shaft, a crank-disk, an arm to having a pivotal connection with the disk, rod 10 pivotally connected with the arm 10 and with the tube, and a rod m pivotally connected with the arm to and the piston, the pivotal point of arm w, with rod u being at a greater distance from the center of the driving-shaft than the pivotal point of rod m with the arm w for the purpose specified.

5. In a machine of the character described,

- the combination with a stnfling mechanism,

of forks g, g, arranged to engage and throttle the stuffed skin at predetermined points, levers 2, z, carrying the forks, pivoted rods 10, 19, having a connection at one end with the levers, a rotatable wheel 01 upon opposite sides of the rim of which the other end of the rods are arranged and adapted to bear, the

said rim for a portion of its length being' widened, means for rotating the wheel, and means for winding twine around the stuffed skin at the points where the same is throttled by the forks.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILHELM ,PAULITSOHKE. FRANZ BARILITSCH.

Witnesses:

WILHELM BERGER, ALVEs'ro S. HOGUE 

